Chris Nerney

I was in a large bookstore the other day and was amazed at the number of titles in the ubiquitous ”Chicken Soup” series. What began in 1993 as a single collection of treacly feel-good stories meant to lift readers’ spirits has turned into an entire library of treacly feel-good stories meant to lift readers’ spirits, […]

The category may be new, but the winner is no stranger to Datamation’s Product of the Year Awards. CoreFirst, the transaction management platform and flagship product of New York-based OpTier Inc., was a landslide victor in the Business/IT Alignment Software category of the Datamation Product of the Year 2007 Awards. With more than three times […]

Frustrated by a sluggish stock market and hungry for a financial windfall, Wall Street increasingly seems eager for another technology stock bubble. A recent slew of mega-mergers, tech IPOs (initial public offerings) and rumored tech IPOs have been grabbing headlines and stoking investor buzz. A small sample: eBay’s $2.6 billion acquisition this week of popular […]

I had to travel to New York City for Jupitermedia’s Digital Rights Management Strategies Conference last week, and decided to take an Amtrak train from my home near Saratoga Springs, N.Y., rather than fly out of Albany. When I was buying tickets at the train station the day before my departure, I asked a gentleman […]

I’ve written plenty of columns about eBay over the past five years, and I’m relieved to say that early on I saw the online auction giant would emerge as one of the few big winners in the Internet space. Otherwise I wouldn’t provide links to these old eBay columns here, here and here. But I […]

As federal district court Judge Barbara Jones on Wednesday sentenced former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers to 25 years in prison for masterminding the world’s biggest accounting fraud (non-government category), the defendant began to cry. It was a touching moment – or at least it would have been if they were tears of genuine remorse instead […]

In recent days Datamation has received reader responses regarding several articles and columns about low IT worker morale and technology industry employment trends. The articles can be found here, here and here. In a nutshell, they convey the following information: Surveys show record lows in IT worker confidence, primarily because of “a significant decrease in […]

IT professionals are exhibiting distinct signs of depression these days. And I know why. It’s my fault. Well, not just me. The dour, gloomy media is to blame. I know this because Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s head cheerleader, recently told a group of CNET editors that the media is needlessly bumming everybody out. ”You guys like […]

Thanks to recent and pending advances in technology, two of the most frustrating obstacles for busy traveling professionals are expected to disappear. United Air Lines announced on Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration has green-lighted plans for the carrier to install equipment on its planes that soon will allow passengers to access the Internet in-flight […]

Hailed only months ago as the long-awaited savior to discontented users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox open-source browser now is being subjected to the kind of scrutiny and criticism that inevitably confronts any challenge to the status quo. If you haven’t heard the latest, it turns out Firefox isn’t the impenetrable […]